c2p-cmd/Good-Quotes-Authors huggingface dataset:
"Science and vision are not opposites or even at odds. They need each other. I sometimes hear other startup folks say something along the lines of: 'If entrepreneurship was a science, then anyone could do it.' I'd like to point out that even science is a science, and still very few people can do it, let alone do it well." — Eric Ries
"Musicals are, by nature, theatrical, meaning poetic, meaning having to move the audience's imagination and create a suspension of disbelief, by which I mean there's no fourth wall." — Stephen Sondheim
"The present structure of rewards in high schools produces a response on the part of an adolescent social system which effectively impedes the process of education." — James S. Coleman
"As to happiness in this life it is hardly compatible with that diminished respect which ever attends the relinquishing of labour." — Anthony Trollope
"The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions." — James A. Baldwin
"Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity." — John Milton
"Buyers decide in the first eight seconds of seeing a home if they're interested in buying it. Get out of your car, walk in their shoes and see what they see within the first eight seconds." — Barbara Corcoran
"I think you can tell the food is close to my heart, too, because I'm doing what I do best." — Giada De Laurentiis
"What is normally called religion is what I would tend to call music - participating in music, listening to music, making records and singing." — Will Oldham
"When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life now that I am old I know that it is." — Oscar Wilde
"Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin." — John Lubbock
"Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is... the highway to success." — Og Mandino
"Boxing has become America's tragic theater." — Joyce Carol Oates
"What I'm doing is art - it's low-brow art but there's a magic in that." — Kesha
"To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living." — Herman Melville
"Critics? Don't talk to me of critics! You think some jackanapes journalist, his soul eaten away by the maggots of jealousy and failure, has anything worthwhile to say of art? I don't." — Jonathan Raban
"We may smile at these matters, but they are melancholy illustrations." — Joseph Howe
"Sinn Fein has demonstrated the ability to play a leadership role as part of a popular movement towards peace, equality and justice." — Gerry Adams
"If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk." — Oscar Wilde
"I was dating this guy and we would spend all day text messaging each other. And he thought that he could tell that he liked me more because he actually spelt the word 'YOU' and I just put the letter 'U'." — Kelly Osbourne
"Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except as a means of peace." — Ulysses S. Grant
"Women will only have true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation." — Ruth Bader Ginsburg
"All this stuff is so mind-blowing to me that I get to do in my life. Throwing the first pitch out at the White Sox game on a random Wednesday? Like who am I? How did I get this life? I'm glad I'm not jaded, and little kids are the least jaded people in the entire world, so it's fun to be around people that still find wonder in how cool things are." — Jonah Hill
"I have long known that it is part of God's plan for me to spend a little time with each of the most stupid people on earth." — Bill Bryson
"Good buildings come from good people, ad all problems are solved by good design." — Stephen Gardiner
"A person needs at intervals to separate himself from family and companions and go to new places. He must go without his familiars in order to be open to influences, to change." — Katharine Butler Hathaway
"Let's face it - think of Africa, and the first images that come to mind are of war, poverty, famine and flies. How many of us really know anything at all about the truly great ancient African civilizations, which in their day, were just as splendid and glorious as any on the face of the earth?" — Henry Louis Gates
"A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation." — Bertrand Russell
"I once sang 'Summer Nights,' from 'Grease,' at a bar in Melbourne with John Travolta, who's a good friend of mine. He looked cool singing the part of Danny - sitting in an armchair, smoking a cigar - while I got stuck playing Sandy." — Hugh Jackman
"Our government has made a number of promises to the men and women who served in our nation's armed forces. Sadly, these promises of health care, education and other benefits have existed more in rhetoric than in reality." — Allen Boyd
"Growing up in Huntington Beach, you were either a traditional sports athlete, a skateboarder, or a surfer. I got my first skateboard when I was five and skated off and on over the years, did a little BMX racing as a kid, and then in my freshman or sophomore year I started getting a little bit more into skateboarding." — Jason Lee
"And as a character, what I found very inspiring about playing Dharma, especially at that time, is that the women on television were more neurotic than they were free. And I thought, this is a rare bird and this is unique on television and I think it's really refreshing." — Jenna Elfman
"An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have." — Andy Warhol
"When I wake up in the morning, I feel just like any other insecure 24-year-old girl." — Lady Gaga
"Knowledge is true opinion." — Plato
"For years, I never knowingly went on a holiday. When I travelled, it was for work. Now I am a huge advocate, particularly to places which have amazing wildlife, such as Antarctica, India and Patagonia." — Miranda Richardson
"Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth." — Samuel Johnson
"If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher." — Abdul Kalam
"I'd love it if American kids were listening to Muslim music." — Brian Eno
"The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned." — W. Somerset Maugham
"I've always enjoyed poor health." — Taylor Caldwell
"But America was founded on the principle that every person has God-given rights. That power belongs to the people. That government exists to protect our rights and serve our interests.That we shouldn't be trapped in the circumstances of our birth. That we should be free to go as far as our talents and work can take us." — Marco Rubio
"I definitely love women. They are more attractive to the naked eye." — Christina Aguilera
"Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced." — Marquis de Sade
"We get strength and encouragement from watching children." — Hayao Miyazaki
"I hope that what you take away from my album is not just the music - which I did want to be fun, and I did want it to be about individuality, but please also take away from it that there's no dream that's too big." — Lady Gaga
"In view of China's growing military strength and intentions, the best way to safeguard Asia's permanent peace and prosperity is to have all Asian countries join forces with other democratic countries in the world to form a global community of democracies." — Jim Costa
"When I got political that blew our marriage out of the water. I was not the same person and I admit that." — Michael Moriarty
"A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood." — George S. Patton
"A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age." — Robert Frost
"Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth." — W. Somerset Maugham
"The doors of wisdom are never shut." — Benjamin Franklin
"My generation of bossy, confident, baby-boom women were something brand new in history. Our energy and assertiveness weren't created by Betty Friedan, unknown before her 1963 book, or by Gloria Steinem, whose political activism, as even the Lifetime profile admitted, did not begin until 1969." — Camille Paglia
"Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science." — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it." — W. Somerset Maugham
"How can you tell when a political ideology has become the equivalent of a religion?" — Andrew Sullivan
"Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out." — Oliver Wendell Holmes
"Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two." — John Cheever
"More and more companies are reaching out to their suppliers and contractors to work jointly on issues of sustainability, environmental responsibility, ethics, and compliance." — Simon Mainwaring
"True intelligence requires fabulous imagination." — Ian Mcewan
"We don't attempt to have any theme for a number of the anthology, or to have any particular sequence. We just put in things that we like, and then we try to alternate the prose and the poetry." — James Laughlin
"Take pride in your work at all times. Remember, respect for an umpire is created off the field as well as on." — Ford Frick
"We can reach our potential, but to do so, we must reach within ourselves. We must summon the strength, the will, and the faith to move forward - to be bold - to invest in our future." — John Hoeven
"The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason." — Hunter S. Thompson
"Look, I think Hispanic community - the values that resonate in our community are fundamentally conservative. They are faith, family and patriotism." — Ted Cruz
"The Fuhrer alone is the present and future German reality and its law. Learn to know ever more deeply: from now on every single thing demands decision, and every action responsibility." — Martin Heidegger
"My goal wasn't to make a ton of money. It was to build good computers." — Steve Wozniak
"In seeking wisdom thou art wise in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool." — Lord Chesterfield
"It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion." — Abraham Lincoln
"We can't have a failure in Iraq, but we also can't be there for the next 10 years because if we are, it's going to become, I think, a failure in and of itself." — Dennis Ross
"I suppose when they reach a certain age some men are afraid to grow up. It seems the older the men get, the younger their new wives get." — Elizabeth Taylor
"What made women's labour particularly attractive to the capitalists was not only its lower price but also the greater submissiveness of women." — Clara Zetkin
"Mystery is gone to the certainty of technological principles. So the real terror, the real aggression against life comes in the form of the pursuit of our technological happiness." — Godfrey Reggio
"War can be avoided, and it ought to be avoided. I want no war." — Chief Joseph
"God cannot alter the past, though historians can." — Samuel Butler
"With While You Were Sleeping, it was so much fun and such a Cinderella story, that I didn't want to do another romantic comedy. I wanted to do the opposite." — Bill Pullman
"I think women don't grow up with the harsh world of criticism that men grow up with, we are more sensitively treated, and when you first experience the world of film-making you have to develop a very tough skin." — Jane Campion
"But even in the Christian religion, much of its real meaning is hidden by words that are misleading and symbols that but few understand." — Ernest Holmes
"The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder." — Alfred Hitchcock
"The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one." — David Hume
"People don't want to see women doing things they don't think women should do." — Joan Jett
"On the other hand, the waging of peace as a science, as an art, is in its infancy. But we can trace its growth, its steady progress, and the time will come when there will be particular individuals designated to assume responsibility for and leadership of this movement." — Fredrik Bajer
"Music is well said to be the speech of angels." — Thomas Carlyle
"I'm not just a boy toy. I have feelings and dreams like anybody else." — Jon Stewart
"I used to wonder if it was God's plan that I should be alone for so much of my life. But I found peace. I found happiness within people and the world." — Lana Del Rey
"We need fundamental change. In the past, national development led to people's happiness but now the link between national growth and improvement in people's lives has been severed." — Park Geun-hye
"The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish." — Charlie Chaplin
"Everyone comes up to me saying, 'Cooee, Julie! Hello!' as if I know them. Of course I don't bloody know them. Am I flummoxed by it? Sometimes. I think, 'Ooh, love, go easy.' For a time, I did feel this pressure that I had to be funny, but it passes." — Julie Walters
"Religion is not only a part of education, an element of humanity, but the center of everything else, always the first and the ultimate, the absolutely original." — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
"We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry." — Maria Montessori
"The fact of the matter is that when there are feelings involved and you like someone, it doesn't matter if you're an actor, a teacher, a doctor, a lawyer, a receptionist - you can't really help it when you have feelings for someone." — Jessica Szohr
"Everyone thinks they're going to write one book of poems or one novel." — Marilyn Hacker
"Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company." — Friedrich Nietzsche
"He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich." — Evelyn Waugh
"I was embarrassed that I even wanted to become an actress because coming from L.A., with two older sisters in the business and a mom who had been a ballet dancer, it was such a cliche." — Elizabeth Olsen
"When you're a mom and you have three children, nothing bothers you. Trust me. Who cares what people say? I've got other things to deal with." — Faith Hill
"It is statistically proven that the strongest institution that guarantees procreation and continuity of the generations is marriage between one man and one woman. We don't want genocide. We don't want to destroy the sacred institution of marriage." — Alveda King
"I was asked to act when I couldn't act. I was asked to sing 'Funny Face' when I couldn't sing, and dance with Fred Astaire when I couldn't dance - and do all kinds of things I wasn't prepared for. Then I tried like mad to cope with it." — Audrey Hepburn
"The exact contrary of what is generally believed is often the truth." — Jean de la Bruyere
"I have always liked the idea of going to print because a big part of what we are about is to disseminate knowledge throughout the world and not just to people who have broadband." — Jimmy Wales
"I know a lot of people dread going to work every morning, but my work is playing pretend and doing stunts and screaming. It's a lot of fun and I get to play dress up. Every day is exciting and different and new and cool. I couldn't be more grateful." — Nina Dobrev
"The parent knows instinctively that if they're working and setting an example for their child that means that child is more likely to be in school, more likely to stay out of trouble and more likely to complete their education." — John Engler
"Travel is the most private of pleasures. There is no greater bore than the travel bore. We do not in the least want to hear what he has seen in Hong Kong." — Vita Sackville-West
"My mom, Irmelin, taught me the value of life. Her own life was saved by my grandmother during World War II." — Leonardo DiCaprio
"Without freedom of the press, there can be no representative government." — Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
"I grew up very religious, and I don't have a great relationship with religion." — Brad Pitt
"The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity." — Rollo May
"An artist cannot fail it is a success to be one." — Charles Horton Cooley
"I think a lot of people get so obsessed with the wedding and the expense of the wedding that they miss out on what the real purpose is. It's not about a production number, it's about a meaningful moment between two people that's witnessed by people that they actually really know and care about." — Jane Seymour
"We are approaching a new age of synthesis. Knowledge cannot be merely a degree or a skill... it demands a broader vision, capabilities in critical thinking and logical deduction without which we cannot have constructive progress." — Li Ka Shing
"I try to speak in everyday language. I feel like God has gifted me to take Bible principles and make them practical." — Joel Osteen
"We know that when people are safe in their homes, they are free to pursue their dream for a brighter economic future for themselves and their families." — George Pataki
"In reality, Republicans have long been at war with clean energy. They have ridiculed investments in solar and wind power, bashed energy-efficiency standards, attacked state moves to promote renewable energy and championed laws that would enshrine taxpayer subsidies for fossil fuels while stripping them from wind and solar." — Jeff Goodell
"From a commercial point of view, if Christmas did not exist it would be necessary to invent it." — Katharine Whitehorn
"Any time women come together with a collective intention, it's a powerful thing. Whether it's sitting down making a quilt, in a kitchen preparing a meal, in a club reading the same book, or around the table playing cards, or planning a birthday party, when women come together with a collective intention, magic happens." — Phylicia Rashad
"'Get a Job' is about all the rich kids we knew when we were younger, kids who never had jobs but always had money for partying or getting their hair done." — Beth Ditto
"There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage." — George Bernard Shaw
"Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go." — Mother Teresa
"The point of power is always in the present moment." — Louise L. Hay
"I know what the attitudes of the readers are: These are guys who love women and respect women." — Christie Hefner
"When I was in college, I used to write little ditties and short stories and poetry for my friends. Writing a book is another thing. It is so much different from my traditional day of dirty fingernails and greasy hair and hot pans." — Mario Batali
"The human race is governed by its imagination." — Napoleon Bonaparte
"Fixing health care and fixing the economy are two sides of the same coin." — Ron Wyden
"You know when something feels so good but you're afraid to feel good about it? So you kinda hold back? Everyone says, Congratulations, you must be so happy. And you say something stupid like, I'm just doing what little I can with what little I have." — Vin Diesel
"Camping is nature's way of promoting the motel business." — Dave Barry
"I had everything I'd hoped for, but I wasn't being myself. So I decided to be honest about who I was. It was strange: The people who loved me for being funny suddenly didn't like me for being... me." — Ellen DeGeneres
"Sports broadcasting is very open now. In the beginning you did encounter more traditional attitudes and get comments. But I'm talking about 12 years ago." — Kirsty Gallacher
"This dullness of vision regarding the importance of the general welfare to the individual is the measure of the failure of our schools and churches to teach the spiritual significance of genuine democracy." — Henry A. Wallace
"Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act." — Marcus Tullius Cicero
"A series of rumors about my attitude, as well as derogatory remarks about myself and my family showed me that the personal resentment of the Detroit general manager toward me would make it impossible for me to continue playing hockey in Detroit." — Ted Lindsay
"You have to be positive, and I'm not just talking about athletics, this also applies to life." — Sheryl Swoopes
"Looking after my health today gives me a better hope for tomorrow." — Anne Wilson Schaef
"Life is suffering. Life is not resistance to suffering. The point of life is to suffer. This is why we're here: We're here to suffer. I believe in a higher power that compassionately allows suffering for us as a race, to grow and mature." — Rainn Wilson
"Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion." — Dwight D. Eisenhower
"The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children." — Jessica Lange
"My grandmother was a kind of Scarsdale, New York, society woman, best known in her day as the author of the 1959 book 'Growing Your Own Way: An Informal Guide for Teen-Agers' - this despite being a person whose parenting style made Joan Crawford's wire hangers look like pool noodles." — Sloane Crosley
"The engine of ancient society was religion but the engine of contemporary society, as I see it, is advertising." — Kit Williams
"The most important thing in the world is family and love." — John Wooden
"You hit a certain age and - especially because of TV - the young cooks coming up say, 'You're a sellout, because you're doing something other than what you should be doing.' 'Top Chef' is a double-edged sword for me: There's a whole group of people who will not come to the restaurants because they assume I'm not in them anymore, all I do is TV." — Tom Colicchio
"A boy's story is the best that is ever told." — Charles Dickens
"Are we changing the idea of what beauty is? Let's hope so. I'm not the typical Hollywood beauty. Let's hope we're looking at the insides of people a little more." — Anne Heche
"The thing people don't understand is that touring or travelling or whatever you do in my position means you go to all these cool places all over the world, but you see everything from a car window. You don't get to see much of the city or meet people at all." — Taylor Momsen
"Why am I so famous? What am I doing right? What are the others doing wrong?" — Barbra Streisand
"I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen." — Ernest Hemingway
"I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect." — Jiddu Krishnamurti
"I hope the millions of people I've touched have the optimism and desire to share their goals and hard work and persevere with a positive attitude." — Michael Jordan
"When you do find humor in trying times, one of the first and most important changes you experience is that you see your perplexing problems in a new way - you suddenly have a new perspective on them." — Allen Klein
"Nature always wears the colors of the spirit." — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I didn't get into skating to be famous." — Eric Heiden
"I have the opportunity to be part of swimming history. To take the sport to a new level would be an honor for me. There's no better time to try this than now." — Michael Phelps
"No matter how vast, how total, the failure of man here on earth, the work of man will be resumed elsewhere. War leaders talk of resuming operations on this front and that, but man's front embraces the whole universe." — Henry Miller
"When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions their reasons are always different." — George Santayana
"We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it." — Dwight D. Eisenhower
"When we criticize in Iran the actions of the government, the fundamentalists say that we and the Bush Administration are in the same camp. The funny thing is that human rights activists and Mr. Bush can never be situated in the same group." — Shirin Ebadi
"Thus, the standard library will serve as both a tool and as a teacher." — Bjarne Stroustrup
"My father was a teacher, and there were teachers all around, his friends, they were working for the Government and their behaviour was within strictly limited areas." — C. L. R. James
"Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time." — Viktor E. Frankl
"If you look at U.S. history through religious history, there is very much a motif that shows the importance religion has played in the U.S. We're a very religious country and it affects the way we look at various political issues." — Madeleine Albright
"But being in the closet uniquely assisted me in politics. From my first run for the state legislature until my election as governor, all too often I was not leading but following my best guess at public opinion." — James McGreevey
"It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion." — Bertrand Russell
"Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing." — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Your personality as the prime minister feeds through to what you emphasise, and what you don't, how you'll handle a situation - whether you've got the combination of intelligence or instincts to adapt and to make good decisions." — John Key
"So foolish is the heart of man that he ever puts his hope in the future, learning nothing from his past errors and fancying that tomorrow must be better than today." — Mika Waltari
"I've always been too hard on myself to behave like I've arrived or even to enjoy whatever success I've had. I've always envisioned myself higher than where I was and I still do. With each success I think, 'That's nice but I'm supposed to go there!'" — Nicole Scherzinger
"One of the functions of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence." — Lewis Mumford
"The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief... that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart." — Walter Lippmann
"I think art is the only thing that's spiritual in the world. And I refuse to forced to believe in other people's interpretations of God. I don't think anybody should be. No one person can own the copyright to what God means." — Marilyn Manson
"And inasmuch as the bridge is a symbol of all such poetry as I am interested in writing it is my present fancy that a year from now I'll be more contented working in an office than ever before." — Hart Crane
"Most of the debate over the cultures of death and life is about process. The debate focuses on the technology available to determine how we prolong life and how and when we end it." — Suzanne Fields
"I have known war as few men now living know it. It's very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes." — Douglas MacArthur
"Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in." — Napoleon Bonaparte
"I feel there is something unexplored about woman that only a woman can explore." — Georgia O'Keeffe
"Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace." — Dalai Lama
"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire." — William Butler Yeats
"The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man's right to his body, or woman's right to her soul." — Emma Goldman
"We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go." — Timothy Leary
"It's good that the first half of the speech emphasized freedom, because George W. Bush has been the global champion for freedom. As he said, if we don't fight tyranny it will not leave us alone in peace." — Ernest Istook
"Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up." — Pearl S. Buck
"Sally Field looks amazing in general, never mind her age! She's a phenomenally talented actress and has had a career spanning so many decades." — Alison Sweeney
"I continue to believe that the American people have a love-hate relationship with inflation. They hate inflation but love everything that causes it." — William E. Simon
"I'm happy that I feel a little less out of place in filmmaking than I once was - but it's almost impossible for a playwright in the U.S. to make a living. You can have a play, like I did with 'Angels,' and it still generates income for me, but it's not enough for me to live on and have health insurance." — Tony Kushner
"The reason I never give up hope is because everything is so basically hopeless." — Anne Lamott
"Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves." — Ronald Reagan
"The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination." — Voltaire
"Corporations are not in business to be social-welfare organizations they are there to make money." — Benjamin Carson
"Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them." — Lord Chesterfield
"At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough." — Toni Morrison
"Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy." — Wayne Gretzky
"I love chicken. I would eat chicken fingers on Thanksgiving if it were socially acceptable." — Todd Barry
"Excessive fear is always powerless." — Aeschylus
"In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia." — George Orwell
"Except for politics, no business is scrutinized more exhaustively than journalism." — Russell Baker
"I think it's really cool, but Jimmy Eat World and Gin Blossoms did it better than anyone. People don't realize just how awesome the Arizona history is, especially for alternative music. Growing up, that's all I ever wanted to be was those two bands." — Nate Ruess
"I wanted to be the kind of woman who would attract a certain kind of man that I could respect. That was my thinking. It had to do with the kind of couple I would be a part of." — Lisa Kudrow
"Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin." — Anatole France
"No community values entrepreneurship and small business more than the Hispanic community." — Marco Rubio
"The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the sound of outer ocean on a beach." — Henry Beston
"In the year since we brought things into the open with a clean breath of fresh air at City Hall, we have learned about corrupt spending practices and unethical conflicts of interest that waste your money... and keep Dallas from being the great city of our dreams." — Laura Miller
"Now I need to take a piece of wood and make it sound like the railroad track, but I also had to make it beautiful and lovable so that a person playing it would think of it in terms of his mistress, a bartender, his wife, a good psychiatrist - whatever." — Les Paul
"The world of science and the world of literature have much in common. Each is an international club, helping to tie mankind together across barriers of nationality, race and language. I have been doubly lucky, being accepted as a member of both." — Freeman Dyson
"When you sing with a group of people, you learn how to subsume yourself into a group consciousness because a capella singing is all about the immersion of the self into the community. That's one of the great feelings - to stop being me for a little while and to become us. That way lies empathy, the great social virtue." — Brian Eno
"Women should stop going for the bad guys, stop looking so far when the good ones are right there." — Jennifer Aniston
"Women have talent and intelligence but, due to social constraints and prejudices, it is still a long distance away from the goal of gender equality." — Pratibha Patil
"Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods." — Albert Einstein
"I feel like I've lived quite a sheltered life, like my mom and dad were quite protective of me." — Leona Lewis
"It's time for Haitians to have access to health care. It's time to open our borders to the Haitian diaspora, open our markets to the world. It's time to open our country to potential investors." — Michel Martelly
"Small debts are like small shot they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon of loud noise, but little danger." — Samuel Johnson
"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music." — Aldous Huxley
"The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green." — Ernest Hemingway
"And it's one thing to give people freedom and something else to deny the rights of Christians to assert their faith in order to keep Hindus from feeling upset." — Pat Robertson
"It takes people a while to trust you." — Karl Malone
"If you don't get noticed, you don't have anything. You just have to be noticed, but the art is in getting noticed naturally, without screaming or without tricks." — Leo Burnett
"Do I have a long-term plan? Kind of. I have a general direction, I think. But it's funny what comes down the pike." — Jeff Bridges
"Only time, education and plenty of good schooling will make anti-segregation work." — Nat King Cole
"Given political history in Chile, it seemed to me that there was a critical task of consolidating a democracy and creating healthy civic-military and political-military relationships." — Michelle Bachelet
"Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality." — James A. Garfield
"When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home." — Winston Churchill
"The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom." — Samuel Smiles
"I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified, because we are taught to respect fear more than ourselves. We've been taught that silence would save us, but it won't." — Audre Lorde
"My health is the No. 1 concern and my longevity is the No. 1 concern." — Alonzo Mourning
"The U.S. states that allow for citizens' initiatives tend to have fewer laws and lower taxes than the ones that don't. But the beauty of the system is that it encourages the spread of best practice." — Daniel Hannan
"I've had moments where I realize my body isn't going to withstand many more seasons, but I am very satisfied with my career and I am trying not to look at retirement as a sad thing." — Cat Osterman
"Those who find beauty in all of nature will find themselves at one with the secrets of life itself." — L. Wolfe Gilbert
"For her fifth wedding, the bride wore black and carried a scotch and soda." — Phyllis Battelle
"Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing." — William Butler Yeats
"The speed of change makes you wonder what will become of architecture." — Tadao Ando
"I am a voyager - and the voyage cannot mean that I stay at home." — Emmanuelle Beart
"After doing 'Firefly' and moving on, I always wanted to be part of a series again. I love doing films, too, but there's just something special about being part of the team and feeling like you're actually a part of the family, and I always look to re-create that." — Summer Glau
"As we look forward to freedom, the shining city on the hill and the best days of America lying ahead, it is the men and women in uniform who protect, defend and make us proud to whom we should look and give thanks every night." — Robin Hayes
"Women who marry early are often overly enamored of the kind of man who looks great in wedding pictures and passes the maid of honor his telephone number." — Anna Quindlen
"That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way." — Ernest Hemingway
"Leaders have to act more quickly today. The pressure comes much faster." — Andy Grove
"Obviously, in dealing with a relationship, sexuality has to be involved, and jealousy and emotions like that. And I don't know, I've always been intrigued by those emotions." — Adrian Lyne
"In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself." — Laurence Sterne
"The things that have always been important: to be a good man, to try to live my life the way God would have me, to turn it over to Him that His will might be worked in my life, to do my work without looking back, to give it all I've got, and to take pride in my work as an honest performer." — Johnny Cash
"The very atmosphere of firearms anywhere and everywhere restrains evil interference - they deserve a place of honor with all that's good." — George Washington
"We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and grave doctors to be so in moral questions so that we can feel reassured." — Blaise Pascal
"The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large." — Confucius
"If you get too attached to how you want it to come out the other side, you freeze. I try to trust that it will work out in the end." — Jennifer Connelly
"The record company's worst fear is that you'll fall in love or get rich." — Maynard James Keenan
"We've been working now with computers and education for 30 years, computers in developing countries for 20 years, and trying to make low-cost machines for 10 years. This is not a sudden turn down the road." — Nicholas Negroponte
"Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors." — Arthur Schopenhauer
"My advice to someone to follow in my footsteps is to have patience. I've been doing this for twelve years." — Christina Milian
"I really don't like to do back-to-back movies. I concentrate on things at home. My family and school life are important to me. I try to do one movie a year." — Anna Chlumsky
"The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make - not just on your wedding day, but over and over again - and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife." — Barbara de Angelis
"We also have to make sure our children know the history of women. Tell them the rotten truth: It wasn't always possible for women to become doctors or managers or insurance people. Let them be armed with a true picture of the way we want it to be." — Anne Roiphe
"Be of service. Whether you make yourself available to a friend or co-worker, or you make time every month to do volunteer work, there is nothing that harvests more of a feeling of empowerment than being of service to someone in need." — Gillian Anderson
"You go to a show, and there's no food at all, so if you're doing shows back to back, you can forget eating. I remember standing up in the bath one day, and there was a mirror in front of me, and I was so thin! I hated it. I never liked being that skinny." — Kate Moss
"This morning when I put on my underwear I could hear the fruit-of-the-loom guys laughing at me." — Rodney Dangerfield
"Ofttimes the test of courage becomes rather to live than to die." — Vittorio Alfieri
"Put your trust in God but be sure to keep your powder dry." — Oliver Cromwell
"The truth is, I think we are a self-less society, not a selfish society. Because we're so busy now." — Phil McGraw
"I've never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a 'fat cat' and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a 'public-spirited philanthropist'." — Ronald Reagan
"I've had a good life. Enough happiness, enough success." — Michael Landon
"My mom is at my house every day, and she nags me about everything, especially hygiene." — Shia LaBeouf
"When you have to get into the character each morning, give it your voice, your face, it was torture." — Victoria Abril
"What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness." — Joseph Brodsky
"I have a life that I enjoy I try and value the things that I think are worth valuing and everything else is icing. You know, it is a kick to go down the red carpet in that dress and then you go back home." — Jewel
"I'm proud of my invention, but I'm sad that it is used by terrorists." — Mikhail Kalashnikov
"Tears are the silent language of grief." — Voltaire
"It's a fact that more people watch television and get their information that way than read books. I find new technology and new ways of communication very exciting and would like to do more in this field." — Stephen Covey
"Twin-sister of Religion, Selfishness." — Percy Bysshe Shelley
"The movies that are made more thoughtfully or made or with more ambition often get just get drowned out by the noise." — Roger Ebert
"I credit poetry for making this space-walk possible." — Seamus Heaney
"The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence." — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I had been impressed by the fact that biological systems were based on molecular machines and that we were learning to design and build these sorts of things." — K. Eric Drexler
"I didn't really get into golf until I was about 14. My mom and dad were taking lessons from a pro an hour and a half from our farm in Cohuna, Australia. When they got home, I'd ask my mom to explain everything they learned - drills and all." — Stuart Appleby
"My relationship with my mom is really the single most profound relationship that I've ever had in my life." — Mindy Kaling
"It is well that war is so terrible. We should grow too fond of it." — Robert E. Lee
"They say I can open movies, and that's nice in that it puts into people's minds that women can do it. It's not just Kevin Costner, not just Arnold Schwarzenegger. Not just the guys." — Julia Roberts
"I'm confident - confident in my skin, and I'm cool with my flaws and all that stuff." — Minka Kelly
"True love doesn't come to you it has to be inside you." — Julia Roberts
"I hope for peace and sanity - it's the same thing." — Studs Terkel
"What I think we fear is rapid, pronounced, and uncontrollable changes to ourselves, and because of this we have a form of personality inertia - something that resists rapid change." — Simon Travaglia
"The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way." — Samuel Butler
"Looking so cool, his greed is hard to conceal, he's fresh out of law school, you gave him a license to steal." — Al Stewart
"Sitting down to a meal with an Indian family is different from sitting down to a meal with a British family." — Roland Joffe
"The question of religion was a matter for each individual's conscience, and in a great many cases was the outcome of birth or residence in a certain geographical area." — James Larkin
"I was a woman in a man's world. I was a Democrat in a Republican administration. I was an intellectual in a world of bureaucrats. I talked differently. This may have made me a bit like an ink blot." — Jeane Kirkpatrick
"I don't want to be alone, I want to be left alone." — Audrey Hepburn
"I lead no party I follow no leader. I have given the best part of my life to careful study of Islam, its law and polity, its culture, its history and its literature." — Muhammad Iqbal
"Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences is something for which the professorial intellect has no use. No faith in anything of that cheap kind!" — William James
"We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have - for their usefulness." — Thomas Merton
"I design for myself and the first question I ask is, 'Would I wear it?'" — Claudia Schiffer
"There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy." — Chanakya
"Error is acceptable as long as we are young but one must not drag it along into old age." — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test." — Samuel Johnson
"Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming." — Jim Rohn
"I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure." — T. Boone Pickens
"My mom always said that if the Protestants catch a Catholic in their church, they feed them to the Jews." — Kate O'Brien
"Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain." — Elizabeth Bowen
"The hedonistic lifestyle is difficult to achieve when you're still carrying your own gear. Trust me that you don't feel glamorous with a 60-pound amp in your arms it's a lot less sexy than toting a vodka gimlet and impossible to do in heels." — Carrie Brownstein
"Furthermore, we believe that health care reform, again I said at the beginning of my remarks, that we sent the three pillars that the President's economic stabilization and job creation initiatives were education and innovation - innovation begins in the classroom - clean energy and climate, addressing the climate issues in an innovative way to keep us number one and competitive in the world with the new technology, and the third, first among equals I may say, is health care, health insurance reform." — Nancy Pelosi
"I'm so wrapped up in my work that it's often impossible to consider other things in my life. My marriage ended in divorce because of this, my relationship with Holly has suffered by this." — Jim Carrey
"To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends by above all stressing their pettiness, because it is in their work that they have put the best of themselves." — Simone Weil
"I think that men know how to romance a woman and most do it well, at least for a time, otherwise women wouldn't marry them. The problem is that most of them begin to rest on their laurels." — Nicholas Sparks
"Thankfully, beauty is easier to remove than apply, and a swipe of demaquillage in the right direction and you are you once again." — Margaret Cho
"Truth is the glue that holds government together." — Gerald R. Ford
"The two things I was positive about in life were that I was going to be a teacher at a boarding school or an operative with the CIA posted abroad. I could write a book about all the things I was sure about." — Tucker Carlson